Category: Skateboarding News

Over on the other side of the pond better known as the Atlantic, a huge skateboard tour organised by Mountain Dew is doing the rounds and placing some of the sports biggest names head to head for some mad competition time.

Now, if you considered these events like a skateboarding Who wants to be a millionaire? Then the smart money is on the Kickflip Kid Ryan Sheckler. Ryan has yet to phone a friend to step in for him or offer a simple 50-50 instead of all the crazy kickflip boardslide business he’s been dishing out.

Ryan just won the third comp (he won the previous two too!), and is looking to win the fourth and final comp of the Dew Tour. The next generation is no joke!

www.dewactionsportstour.com

Belgium really isn’t all that far from the UK, and in the last 6 months the land of Mussels and Beer has been seriously spreading a lot of ‘Crete.

A new street plaza thing with a bit of quirky transition is currently getting trowelled up by visiting Team Payne heads and locals in Antwerp (Holla back to the good ol’ contest days, eh?). Whilst further north on the Coast, Osstend has just released plans for a sick bowl park with cradle and full pipe details to boot.

The park will be situated in the OG spot a.k.a. the Velodrome (C.f. Antiz Antizipated fun park skit).

This year’s LG Action Sports Tour went off in Paris.

Etnies rider Tobias Albert smacked it to secure first place in street, whilst fellow Etnies rider Juergen Horwarth went straight to pole position in vert.

UK hotshots, Chris Oliver and Ross McGouran both scored heavily in the street comp placing second and fourth respectively.

The Works skatepark in Leeds is like the Las Vegas Caesar’s Palace when it come to raking the celebs in.

In true Sinatra style for one show only, the Nike SB US team will be strutting their stuff around the wooden playground on Sunday October 8th.

Confirmed riders so far are Paul Rodriguez, Brian Anderson, Wieger Wan Wangeningen, Daniel Shimizu, Stefan Janowski and the UK contingent too.

Whilst the skaters in Crewe get first dibs at a new skate plaza, the Manchurian locals get no love from security and undercover cops at the premier street spot, Urbis (The one with the round three blocks and long ledges).

Will Joe Gavin have to take his brand new pro model on The Harmony elsewhere..? Hopefully not.

Internet geeks can log onto Note Skateshop’s new website here.

San Francisco speed freak and all terrain ripper Dennis Busenitz has earned his stripes and steps beside Mark Gonzales on the Adidas skate team.

More riders are due to be announced in the future, but in the mean time Mark and Dennis will lead the other flow riders on tour later this month.

Check out www.adidas.com/skateboarding for more.

In the annual ASR Tradeshow showdown, skaters from all over the world flew in to battle it out as Champion of S.K.A.T.E.

The final three skaters left to sweat, flip and spin on the smallest dancefloor in town were Chris Cole, Alexis Mizurov and Taylor Smith. Taylor lost out pretty quick as Chris and Alex literally went toe for toe on each trick.

With Chris on a S.K. and Alex sweating an S.K.A. it looked like there were hardly anymore tricks to attempt. Switch laser flips, double 360 flips… All done with ease. Finally in a David and Goliath twist of fate, the German kid flown in after winning his qualifying matches back home pulled a switch backside 180 late flip out of his new era cap and sent the pro home. Gnarly!

For the entire results draw click here.

For footage c/o TWS check this.

Despite rolling for one of the most influencial skate shoe companies of the last ten years, Danny Garcia took his amazing talent elsewhere.

You can expect to see Danny rolling through the spot with his guitar and a pair of Es shoes on his feet from now on.

When you are deeply entrenched in cyber space like us, you are bound to stumble across oddities that will have you staring at your screen in bewilderment.

Our radars recently picked up on a French website dedicated to the historical twists of fate that skateboarding has taken via the media.

Go visit www.skate-site.com and feast your eyes on the weird and the wonderful. Where they find some of this stuff, we have no idea…?

Even if we all know who the undisputed champs of internet skate culture is (Uh-hum!), some people are just starting to get with the program.

If you dig any Soletech related product and want to know how it’s getting distributed through the UK, who rides for them and even if they’ve got jobs to offer, check out A4 Distribution’s brand new website: www.afour.co.uk